November 19, 2008

Finally last weekend I had some time to make couple of plug-ins I've had in my mind for some time. It's called Tapio's FxPack (what a great name =) and contains four plug-ins.

Fake 3D(host: Motion, After Effects)Works by replicating object in Z-space. You can get similar effect in Motion with replicator but this one renders faster and is easier to control.

Drop Shadow(host: Motion, Final Cut Pro)I mainly made this for Final Cut Pro because FCP's own drop shadow has some terrible artifacts when you add it to video with alpha channel and have fields enabled in your sequence. This is standard filter so you can add multiple copies of it to clip. It also has "shadow only" option.

Numbers(host: Motion)Generate counting/random numbers in Motion. Very similar to After Effects Numbers filter.

actually guys from Noise Industries warned me about Idustrial Revolution having same kind of plug-in in development after I published my Numbers. So it's just coincident. Good ideas seem to happen same time around the world =D

Anyway with Decimal Counter you can do some things that couldn't be done in my Numbers and vice versa. And I think it's always great to have more options where to choose.

Welcome!

My name is Tapio Haaja and I'm doing MA in New Media in Helsinki Media Lab. At the moment I'm also in MediaBizLab minor studies program. Before studying I worked seven years as an promotion producer at Finnish TV channel called Sub. I'm really interested in future of video production, new/social media, human approach to technology etc... Originally this blog was for my audiovisual experiments but nowadays it's more like study diary.